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Joeseph McCarthy - College Term Paper

Joeseph McCarthy

Joseph R. McCarthy was born in 1908 on a family farm in Wisconsin. He went to a country school and decided he was done with his education at the young age of 14. After that, he explained to his family that he was finished with his studies and wanted to become a farmer like his father.
Joe began a profitable business of raising chickens after borrowing a plot of land from his father. Unfortunately, Joe became very ill and his business perished. Joe decided that he would go to work. At age 19 he became the manager of a grocery store in Manawa, a town thirty miles away. Some friends of his convinced him to go back to high school. He was a very smart man and, at the age of 20, ...

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his leg on a ship during a party and gained a lot of attention from the press along the way. Although later he claimed that his injured leg was caused by ten pounds of sharpnel that he was carrying at the time. There is also a dispute about exactly how many flying missions he actually went on.
Sometime in 1944, McCarthy attempted to beat Alexander Wiley for a senitorial seat in Wisconsin but was defeated. But that wasn't all. He was already planning to run against Robert La Follette (a senator who's seat was up for re-election in just two years).

La Follette would be a difficult one to beat because he was a pretty well known man. But Joe fought hard and spent a lot of money to win. He attacked La Follette and his views relentlessly and spent all of his time campaigning. He was lucky though, because La Follette decided that he would not try to hard and only campaigned for a few weeks. After all of his hard work, Joe won the election and got the chair for Junior ...

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Added: 1/23/2007 03:27:32 AM
Category: Biographies
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